Wasp Control

We provide Wasp Control services in Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR for Residential and Commercial Properties.

Wasps pose a serious threat to humans, especially those at risk of allergic reaction, and are a potential nuisance to household pets. Belonging to the same order as ants (Hymenoptera) wasps exist throughout the world with several thousand different species. Yellow jackets can produce huge colonies with nests containing the upwards of 30,000.

Unless threatened, wasps usually won’t attack. Both will inject a venom with their sting, causing pain, local inflammation, and redness at the site. In the 1% of the population that is allergic, the consequences can be fatal. Being the more aggressive species, wasps can sting multiple times, unlike the bee, who can only sting once. If killed within 15 feet of their nest, they will release an alarm pheromone to signal the others, which can ignite an attack from the colony.

Wasps

With their smooth, long bodies and cinched-in waist, the legs of the wasp are much longer than the average bee. Despite the fact that wasps are not high-volume pollinators, they are useful as natural pest control. Wasps typically will make a meal of other insects for their larvae, thus controlling the populations of such insects as caterpillars and grubs. By paralyzing its prey, wasps will bring the stunned insect into the nest itself. Certain wasps will paralyze the host to lay eggs inside it. Some social wasps, such as yellow jackets, will scavenge for dead insects to feed their young.

Although the role of a wasp is beneficial to our society, the nuisance of their nests and dangerous sting from the Vespid family of wasp, make them undesirable to live amongst. Vespid wasps include yellow jackets, hornets and paper wasps– all of which hold their wings lengthwise to their bodies. Mostly active in warmer weather, the wasp dwells in a papery nest or sometimes in ground nests which are more difficult to detect.